About Wendy Edwards

Wendy Edwards is an attorney in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She is a graduate of Baton Rouge Magnet High School and Millsaps College. Thereafter, she attended law school at LSU’s Paul M. Hebert Law Center, where she received her Juris Doctor in June 2003. Before graduating, she was inducted into the Phi Delta Phi Legal Fraternity and was awarded an honorary membership to the Wex Malone Chapter of the American Inns of Court based upon her outstanding performance in Trial Advocacy. Wendy was admitted to practice law in Louisiana in October 2003.

During law school, Wendy clerked for Judge William F. Kline, who was then serving on the First Circuit Court of Appeal, pro tempore. In August 2003, she began clerking for Judge Jennifer Luse, Chief Judge of the Family Court in and for the Parish of East Baton Rouge. Wendy began practicing in July of 2006. Her primary concentration is in family law and has argued the merits of the Constitutionality of various issues relating to child custody and visitation.

Wendy is a member of the Louisiana State Bar Association and the Baton Rouge Bar Association. With the BRBA, she served on the Board of Directors for two years as an Ex-Officio Member; as President of the Family Law Section for two years, with six years on that Section’s Board; Chair of the Family Law Section’s Legislative Improvement Sub-Section; and has been a Member of the BRBA’s Bylaws and Governance Committee. Currently, she is serving as President of the Louisiana Chapter of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts. She has served on Louisiana’s Protective Order Registry Steering Committee and has lectured extensively on domestic violence issues and the appropriate procedures and tools available to attorneys and their clients regarding Protective Orders and Restraining Orders.